Ray Dalio | Principles of an Investing Pioneer Part One

The human species basically has two parts to their brain: They have their logical part and then there's the emotional part ... You don't want to let the emotional part stand in the way of the logical part in order to make the best decisions possible.

I believe that the reason people typically miss the big moments of evolution coming at them in life is that we each experience only tiny pieces of what's happening. We are like ants preoccupied with our jobs of carrying crumbs in our minuscule lifetimes instead of having a broader perspective of the big picture, patterns and cycles, the important interrelated things driving them, where we are within the cycles, [and what's likely to transpire].

I think there's an emotional reaction to disagreeing. That's so stupid. If one could calm oneself down and understand the art of thoughtful disagreement, the capacity to see how others see things, and to then understand those differences, it's enlightening.

I learned a long time ago through a lot of different experiences that the things that surprised me most were things that hadn't happened to me in my lifetime before but happened many times before that.